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Poet David Moolten -- Reading & Book Signing

Feb.22.2010
Poet David Moolten -- Reading & Book Signing

Poet David Moolten
winner of the T. S. Eliot prize

02/25/2010 Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.

Reading/booksigning and Q & A
in Phillips Lower Level Conference Room,
West Chester University

Sponsored by the WCU English Dept.

Free. All are welcome!

Here is a link for directions to the University:

http://www.wcupa.edu/visitors/directions.asp

(questions to JLEE4@WCUPA.EDU
or to me at dmoolten@gmail.com)

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David's Latest Blogs

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May.14.2011 - 11:12 pm
Louder Than A Bomb
Louder Than A Bomb
Louder Than A Bomb is the name of a scholastic slam poetry competition in Chicago. It’s also the title of a new movie from Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel, a documentary focusing on...
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Apr.30.2010 - 5:53 am
WILDsound TORONTO Film Festival
Here is a recent podcast interview I did in anticipation of the screening of "Astronaut Goes From Migrant Fields To Outer Space" at the WILDsound TORONTO Film Festival...
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Mar.18.2010 - 12:21 pm
Authors Read
Lillian and David Brummet are the gracious hosts of the blogtalkradio program, Authors Read, a weekly fifteen minute broadcast presenting live as well as prerecorded readings by...
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Mar.05.2010 - 11:41 am
Hearts and Minds
I’m excited about the recent selection of my short film “Astronaut Goes From Migrant Fields To Outer Space” for inclusion in the Hearts and Minds Film Festival in Delaware next...
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Comments from David

Dec.22.2009 - 2:45 pm
In response to: Carla Zilber-Smith Acts with Talent, Humor, and Courage
Carla, You may very well
Carla, You may very well already know this, and have probably heard more about Lou Gehrig than you could ever want...
Dec.20.2009 - 11:01 am
In response to: The Black Crow
You're welcome, although I
You're welcome, although I saw us as being on equal footing, having both received "honorable mention" by Red...
Dec.20.2009 - 10:57 am
In response to: First Beer
Thanks for stopping by
Thanks for stopping by Ron.  Sometimes banging produces the best results (as in fixing recalcitrant appliances) and it...
Dec.19.2009 - 1:54 pm
In response to: Sadists
The problem is the
The problem is the disconnect between power and wisdom. History until recently has assumed "manifest destiny." When...
Dec.19.2009 - 1:37 pm
In response to: Boat Yard
Frictive fictive--what great
Frictive fictive--what great onomatopoeia. I like the premise (which you wonderfully execute) of imaginary redemption...

Writing

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The Red Shoes
Poem: Beauty
Poem: “ASTRONAUT GOES FROM MIGRANT FIELDS TO OUTER SPACE”

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Primitive Mood
Published by Philadelphia Stories, Fiction, Art, Poetry of the Delaware Valley
"In his newest book, Primitive Mood, David Moolten picks at humanity’s darkest tendencies and deepest capacities for suffering. Like a patchwork quilt of the twentieth century,...
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About David

I'm the author of three books of poetry, Plums & Ashes (Northeastern University, 1994), which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize,  Especially Then (David Robert Books, 2005), and Primitive Mood (Truman State University, 2009), which recently won the...
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